Sinnoh's fucking cold, huh? I didn't think the temperature would be quite this different, but... Damn, I'm shivering.

So, I'm sure most of the people reading this blog have already heard my plans up here in person, but just to recap: Goal of this trip is a field stress testing for a new product aimed at trainers. There is a very specific regional pokemon that I'm looking to pit up against my new toy, but he won't be the easiest to find.

I'll be documenting my travels throughout Sinnoh up here partially because it's Interesting Content and clickbait, partially for historical memorandum (because this product is going to change the world if it works), and partially because it's always good practice to document your process when you're trying to demonstrate the reliability of a new piece of tech~ This won't strictly be a Pokemon League run like the last field test I did... damn, almost ten years ago now? But I am expecting to be making a lot of visits to the local League Gyms for other reasons, so... Fuck it, might decide to get my badges while I'm at it.

Currently my team consists of my Cubone, Annabella, and my Shedinja. Equipment on hand is:

The 2.0 model of my old NFC-enabled pokeball and portable PC system (now with much better failsafe procedures in case of transmission error!)

A holocaster with the PkDX open-source pokedex app (shout outs to Jimmy at Self-Instructive!)

A custom recon quadcopter with a pair of hand-built FPV goggles

A laser sintered, stainless steel 3D printed club for Annabella~

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

The skies grow dark, and a shadow looms over the land. Artemis Sunset stands at the center of the stadium’s pitch, as the fire gym leader, Kabu, grovels at her feet. “Please, if only you’d spare me and my pokemon!” he begs. Artemis’ reply is merely to smirk, and snap her fingers to command her monstrous, gigantamaxed Drizzile to make the killing blow. A deluge rushes down the field, and the sky weeps rain--

Arte. Please take this seriously.

That’s what happened though!!

Apart from the gym leader groveling, it… kind of is, actually. You could be a little less dramatic about it, though.

Hey, gotta entertain our readers, right?

Oh, and I caught a Litwick during the trial too, and she did a bang-up job with the gym leader, as well. Kabu’s Ninetails wasn’t able to land a single hit that she wasn’t able to absorb.

Hello everyone! Cait here!

We just beat our second gym! Nessa’s challenge was a real puzzle - literally! It really took a lot of thinking to make our way through it!

Once we were able to get past it, though, the battle was a piece of cake! Arte’s new Pumpkaboo really pulled his weight in that fight, and we breezed right through it!

Nevermind! Our first gym battle is actually in Turffield I’m not very bright! Motostoke was where the opening ceremony was held!

Cait got really emotional being able to step on stadium turf for the first time. She was a right mess as soon as we got back to our hotel. Big sis has always idolized league trainers and she has a huge amount of memorabilia back home, and putting our jersey on for the first time…

Hehheh. It was really tempting, actually, to think of some sort of prank to ruin the moment right then and there, but I wouldn’t do that to her.

We have a full team now! We have a Sobble named Sobsob, a Yamper named Hartbutt, a Wooloo named Inanna, a Nickit named Kit, a Metapod named Caileigh, and, umm… a Rookidee named >:O, I guess.

We also got our endorsement from Leon to participate in the pokemon League! All we had to do was bully his dork little brother for a bit, and that was well enough to impress him~

Hii everyone!! We got our first pokemon!! They were all super rowdy and they looked like really good friends when Lee was showing them to us, and I felt a little bit bad, but at least they’ll be seeing each other often, right?

There was a really cute bunny pokemon with big big feet that was really cute, but then one of them got bonked on the head by a toy and started crying and I felt REALLY bad and I had to adopt it! So now we have a Sobble now, and his name is Sobsob!!

So today’s our first day of going on our, uh… adventure, league thing? Is there an actual word for it? Bugger if i know. Anyway, I guess Hop’s brother is coming in from out of town today and he’s bringing starters for us, since we don’t live anywhere near a pokemon lab big enough for that stuff. I haven’t seen him since we were kids and he left for his journey thing. I barely remember what he looks like.

It’ll be really fun, though! Elena and Cait are really excited to go roughing it in the woods, and sightseeing around the region, and all that paff, and… uhh i hate outdoors but i’m excited when my sisters are excited i guess!!